Phenomenon of body emotional response inhibition in puppeteers

The article analyzes the influence of professional activity of puppeteers on their understanding and manifestation of emotions. We describe the syndrome of inhibited emotional bodily response using factor analysis. This is evidenced by: 1) puppeteers exhibiting a superior capacity to differentiate asthenic emotions compared to a normotypical sample; 2) worse understanding and expression of sthenic spectrum emotions; 3) stereotyped empathy expression with the help of verbal means; 4) minimisation of mimic and motor ways of emotional expression. We assume that puppeteers risk to develop negative consequences from motor and psychological desynchronization of emotional expression in stressful situations. The first assumption is the transformation of the identification strategy with the character into emotional exhaustion. The second is the threat of transition of increased readiness to experience asthenic emotions into depression. Mitigating the adverse effects of suppressed emotional expression in puppeteers may be achieved through psychological support during their professional development.